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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Office 2007 on Linux with Wine install guide

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Hi. I followed your guide to get Office 2007 working. Word and Excel works fine but I can't get Powerpoint working. When I open Powerpoint, it shows the popup and then it crashes. The output in the command line is:

Thanks for the great tutorial. I'm really glad that you continue to post very informative articles about the power of Linux. Keep up the awesome job. Don't listen to the haters out there who don't like Linux or are Apple fanboys. You have my support, and I'm sure there are thousands of other Linux users who enjoy your posts.

Wow... Since switching to gnu/linux about 6 months ago i have missed so little. The one exception was Office 2007. Installation went smoothly and the programs seem to be working well. Thank you so much for all your work, it is much, much appreciated.

twickline: thanks for posting this how-to. It almost worked perfectly. I've had the same issue as some other users commenting here: Word and Excel work great, but Powerpoint tries to open (the splash screen pops up) and then the application crashes. Any ideas?

I just read the goodbutbad site and am disappointed in their petty claims. I have been reading this blog since i switched to GNU/Linux and i have the utmost respect for how much you have done to help make wine such an amazing tool. I have been following the Office 2007 install closely and have been excited since you demo'd it a few months ago. I also appreciate that you waited to release it until you had a stable, repeatable process.

Don't get weighed down by these few negative, jealous people and please know that for one of them there must be hundreds of us appreciative people.

If anybody has come across a workaround to get Powerpoint working, could you post it up?

Then He came back and deleted his post asking for help and posted his own original howto :D If you look at who posted there it was "a-s-h-o-k" :D

I don't care if someone post a better howto after reading what I post! All I ask for was a link back to the original...

As for PowerPoint, yea we think we have a work around for this, but it was "christoff" who found the work around so he is going to be the one to post a update with everything he has come across. Just give him a day or two to test everything and write it up....

Oh, and about Linux being free and we should share our ideas... I never once have came across where a decent Linux user went around stealing other peoples ideas and then called them there own. I would only suspect that everything else on that blog came from someone else and was re branded as a original thought. This isn't how Linux got to where it is today!

twickline, thanks a million. I got Word and Excel to work, and after medo's comment with winetricks, I got powerpoint to work as well. Maybe you should include his winetricks comment in your tutorial...

So, all that's left is outlook, but that's not a major problem for me at the moment.

It works, woo!

I really appreciate your hard work. And your rather frequent postings here as well. Keep up the good work! =)

I had a little problem with the CD Key input as well, but then I noticed that the problem was when I copied the key into the space. When I used ctrl+v to paste, the code got messed up and left out some of the characters.

To get around this, I just entered the CD Key by hand and the next button "un-greyed" and I continued normally.

I've been trying to install Office 2007 using the provided guide for several days now. If I follow the exact same steps from the guide the installation doesn't even start. There is an error message that wants to send a report to Mircosoft... If in addition I install msi2 (using winetricks) I can run the setup and then I get to the file copying part and at that point it again crashes with an error.

I tried installing msi3.1 but that didn't work out. It said that it can't find a disk to extract the files to. I unpacked the installation manually and put the .dll files from the package in the system32 folder. I also configured these as native libraries in winecfg. This time setup doesn't crash when copying files but doesn't do any progress either.

I didn't see anyone else that complains about not even being able to install Office. So I am wondering if there is some particular problem with my system. I am running Ubuntu 7.10 on my laptop: 1.6Ghz AMD Turion, 2GB ram.

Has anyone figured out how to fix the bullets problems? I'm thinking it may be a font problem (some fonts aren't installed or something). I don't know how to install fonts in wine, so I cant test this. Anyone who knows how, can you try it?

1) Install the winbind package.2) Install Windows Installer 3.1. You can download this from the MS website. If you can't install using the exe file, you can use cabextract to unpack the file. Then you must copy the dll files and msiexec.exe to your system32 folder and set those files to native in wincfg.

I did that and now I get to the file copying process. Office creates a folder of ~500MB "MSO Cache" but then goes into some sort of loop. This is the output before it starts looping:

I am facing the same issue... I too have an amd turion processor... I think that is likely part of our problem... The main difference between what you posted and what I experience is I get a dialog that says "cannot find Office.en-us/setup.xml"... It gives me a directory listing to choose where to install from... I have the install cd mounted to /media/cdrom0 and it has the missing file, but after I pick the directory setup exits and gives a microsoft "send error report" dialog... as much fun as it might be to spam microsoft with error reports, I don't think that will help us... I think there must be an issue with either the 64 bit version of wine, or the version of Office 2007... I have been trying with the Enterprise version of Office, and wonder if I might have more success with the professional version... Well I hope one of us or anyone else figures this out...

P.S. I used to get that same line popping in an endless loop like what you are experiencing, but now i get that error report... (not sure why)

got it working after a few tries and additions to wine. One bump though - when I use Powerpoint 2007, objects don't redraw in real time. So when I want to, say, move something around, the object disappears after clicking on it and appears only upon releasing the button. The gray slim rectangle (width of the slide window, about 10px heigth) appears in the meantime. I played around with turning Compiz on / off, as well as different wine graphics setup - no luck.

Anyone sees the same thing, or is it just me? Any guesses how to fix it, or what to test?

Thanks for the guide. I have Office up and running but am having two issues. 1) The fonts in Word are all bold, all the time. 2) If I run a powerpoint presentation, I cannot advance to the next slide (animations on the current slide do work).

I tried to upgrade wine, but the update manager gave me v. 1.0-RC1 and none of the programs would open (went back to 0.9.59).

in ubuntu gutsy gibbon running wine 0.9.58 office 2007 enterprise installs perfectly, the bullets work! yes! they do!i had msxml 3 installed net framework 2 also i beleive.. but however powerpoint didnt worknow though in hardy heron fresh install. running 0.9.58 wine version (made for hardy--google search it or ask me for a link) (since the other versions dont work as good. (esp. the rev1, 0.9.61, and 0.9.59 (partially)) the bullets do not work. but suprisingly powerpoint works no problemo! so does onenote.. even though it has that initial crash.i believe the bullets may have to do something with winetricks and their mstt core fonts stuff. i heard it caused problems in net framework for some reason. will investigate and see if it works now with the new winetricks revision.

Let me say readers like yourself Kick @SS as well... Yea as it looks 0.9.60 and forwards cause problems, one would think a 1.0 release would be more stable.. but with each relase Office 2007 support gets WORSE! and this really sucks, big time.

ok here we go. this is when running wine 0.9.58 in hardy heron. i fire up terminal and i type in winword. I have narrowed down that cause of no bullets appearing to two lines in my terminal.

when i make a bullet, these lines pop up specifically. fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 4132 (SPI_GETDROPSHADOW)

and then this:fixme:xrender:X11DRV_AlphaBlend not a dibsection

dropshadows? X11drv? alphablend..this seems to be the problem.now i dont know much but this seems to be a xrender/driver issue maybe. i do have xrender installed in synaptic. disabling hardware rendering under the d3d subsection in wine configuration does not work. bullets work fine for me under gutsy even though i'm running the same 0.9.58 version of wine (i installed it in gutsy and hardy in the exact same manner twickline described above except for running the installer as under vista). I do not see these errors/lines when running winword from the terminal in gutsy. So i guess you gotta use gutsy to have a chance of geting bullets to work in word...

btw if anybody is having problems with times new roman being displayed bold all the time. install allfonts (along with richedit20,30) using the newest release of winetricks. It fixed the problem for me flawlessly! :)

my temporary fix for the bullets is to insert a symbol like this one: •it works perfectly fine and does show up (just dont tab it).

YES YES YES THERE IS A FIX FOR THE BULLETS EVERYONE!!http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4992

thanks to andrew who figured this out:

After looking around i saw how easy it was to make the bullets and numbering work in office 2007 word. click the office button, go into word options, then into language settings. All i had to do was remove all of them except for English, U.S. I left spanish in there too and it doesn't hurt. So if you're not in any need of these you can take them out and hopefully it will work for you. after you have removed them, close out of word and start it back up again. check your bullets. this is all it took for me, hopefully the same for you. if they are still not working, you could try going into the advanced menu and selecting "use normal style for bulleted or numbered lists".

After following these instructions on Hardy Heron (64 bit) (modified to only install OneNote 2007), the install works fine. However, I receive an error whenever I try to create a notebook (or do anything for that matter) saying that Windows encountered an error and needs to be shutdown. The following is the output form Wine that accompanies this event: